Belgium
-
Assessments of the tasks performed by CADTM Belgium for the network’s joint international Secretariat
9 February 2022 - by CADTM Belgium
1. Introduction Since 2013, ATTAC CADTM Morocco and CADTM Belgium share the Joint International Secretariat (JIS) of the CADTM International network. During the World Assembly (WA) of the CADTM network that was held between 27 and 30 April (...) -
In memory of Patrice Lumumba, assassinated on 17 January 1961
17 January 2021 - by Eric Toussaint
On 17 January 2021, we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961). After a resounding victory in the first real elections in which the Congolese participated, Patrice Lumumba became Prime Minister of (...) -
Regrets, Apologies and Repair for Belgium’s Colonial Harms
3 December 2020 - by Valerie Arnould
Former colonial countries appear increasingly willing to engage in processes akin to transitional justice in order to confront the legacies of their colonial past. In this blog post, Valerie Arnould discusses recent initiatives in Belgium meant (...) -
Liège Revolution: 1789-1794
26 October 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
In the wake of the French Revolution that broke out on 14 July 1789, the Liège Revolution began on 18 August of the same year. The people of Paris seized the Bastille on 14 July and the people of Liège took the Town Hall and the Citadel on 18 (...) -
Reply to the letter by Philippe, King of the Belgians, about Belgium’s responsibility in the exploitation of the Congolese people
8 July 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
On 30 June 2020, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the former Belgian Congo’s independence, the news went viral over the planet: Philippe, King of the Belgians, had conveyed regrets for the colonial past, and particularly for the time (...) -
Belgium’s colonial crimes in the Congo. A duty to remember
17 June 2020 - by Eric Toussaint
Thanks to the Black Lives Matter mobilizations against racism in general, and racism against black people in particular, becoming an international phenomenon more and more people are seeking to know the truth about the dark past of the colonial (...) -
Patrice Lumumba in Brussels : a square against forgetting
27 June 2018 - by Jérôme Duval, Robin Delobel
For more than 10 years associations had been demanding that a public square be named after the assassinated former Congo Prime Minister in Belgium’s capital, Brussels. On 23 April Brussels’ City Council decided by a unanimous vote that a public (...) -
Debt justice prevails at the Belgian Constitutional Court: Vulture funds law survives challenge by NML Capital
6 June 2018 - by Eurodad, CNCD, Antonio Gambini , Bodo Ellmers
In a landmark ruling on 31 May, the Belgian Constitutional Court upheld the country’s anti-vulture funds law, rejecting a legal challenge by a particularly notorious fund. NML Capital, an opaque vulture fund listed in the offshore financial (...) -
Vulture funds defeated
The Belgian Supreme Court announces its verdict : total victory against the vulture fund NML Capital
4 June 2018 - by CADTM
Press release Total victory for CADTM, Committee for the abolition of Illegitimate Debt, the CNCD – 11.11.11 and its Flemish counterpart represented by Oliver Stein from the chambers of the Progress Lawyers Network. Today 31 May 2018 the (...) -
Semira Adamu 1998: They killed a woman, not her fight
21 May 2018 - by Coordination Semira Adamu 2018
On September 22, 1998, during a sixth attempt to eviction, Semira Adamu was killed, suffocated with a cushion by gendarmes who acted in accordance with state-imposed expulsion techniques. A rejected asylum seeker, Semira was twenty years old. (...) -
Law against the activities of vulture funds
9 December 2017 - by Belgian State
CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) is releasing the text of the Belgian law that aims at curtailing the activities of « vulture funds » and unethical financial speculation. This law, written in consultation with CADTM, CNCD (...) -
Choosing is defiance ! – 5th CADTM Europe Summer School
27 April 2017 - by CADTM Belgium
Save the dates and sign up here ! From Friday 30th of June to Sunday 2nd of July, the 5th CADTM Europe Summer School will be held in the cultural center of La Marlagne in Wépion near Namur (Belgium). The system will never fall, if it is not (...) -
International Call to Support and Internationalize the Belgian Law on Vulture Funds
23 February 2017 - by Collective
On 12 July 2015, the Belgian Parliament passed a law to prevent ‘vulture funds’ from making huge profits out of financial crises. The law limits the ability of creditors to pursue claims before its courts that are manifestly disproportional to the (...) -
UNCTAD organizes a side-event of the Second Committee on Sovereign debt restructurings
27 October 2016 - by Renaud Vivien, UNCTAD
Renaud Vivien (CADTM) intervened at the special event of the second committee of the general assembly, prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on sovereign debt restructurings, on wednesday, (...) -
CNCD, CADTM and 11.11.11 Against Vulture Funds
29 September 2016 - by CNCD
For more information in english, read : Belgian legislation against vulture funds should be preserved – UN rights expert urges. To support CADTM’s action, check out what you can do on this page. The strip in pdf (...) -
Belgian legislation against vulture funds should be preserved – UN rights expert urges
16 June 2016 - by Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, United Nations - Human Rights
GENEVA (15 June 2016) – The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, expressed today his hope that core provisions of a Belgium law limiting vulture funds litigation will survive a constitutional (...) -
No Need to Negotiate with Vulture Funds
22 February 2016 - by Renaud Vivien
Since his victory in the November elections, the new President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, has given priority to resolving the dispute between his country and “vulture funds” – investment funds that buy up heavily marked-down sovereign debt from (...) -
New anti-vulture fund legislation in Belgium: an example for Europe and rest of the world
19 May 2015 - by Jan Van de Poel
On Wednesday last week (6 May) all major parties represented in the Belgian federal parliament signed a proposal that will curtail the harmful speculation by vulture funds: investment companies that buy up defaulted debts for bargain prices and (...) -
NO BORDER : Brussels Police sentenced for compensation and moral damage
Five No Border activists had the courage and determination to cite the Belgian State and the Brussels Police zone before the Court of First Instance. It is their preventive and abusive arrests, violently carried out in a climate of widespread (...) -
Furniture seizure at BNP Paribas Fortis in Belgium: «This is a call to reappropriation!»
20 February 2015 - by Who Steals Who Collective
This morning, about thirty people made their way into a BNP Paribas Fortis office in Brussels and got out with…some furniture! Chairs, plants, a table, etc.: a first catch to start taking back the billions of euros that this bank deposits in (...) -
The Belgian debt could amount to less than 50% of the GDP
11 December 2014 - by Olivier Bonfond
Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty confirms the prohibition for the ECB to make direct loans to member States. This provision made for an abyssal hole in the coffers of member States. In Belgium only some 186 bn euros were paid in interest that (...) -
Today’s 15 May European Business Summit in Brussels: massive repression and right to protest stifled
18 May 2014 - by CADTM Belgium
Today, Thursday 15 May 2014, l’Alliance D19-20)”(in French only)]] (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and austerity measures. The European Business Summit was to bring together political personalities such as Karel De Gucht (...) -
Citizens turn up the volume on troubled TTIP negotiations
21 March 2014 - by Corporate Europe Observatory
March 10-14th saw the latest round of the highly controversial EU-US free trade negotiations take place in Brussels. But while the industry’s 50 leading CEO’s, known collectively as the European Roundtable of Industrialists, proclaimed it their (...) -
Press release
Angry citizens egg José Manuel Barroso in Liège for his championing of harmful austerity policies
18 October 2013 - by CADTM Belgium
On 17 October 2013 at the Theatre de Liège during the “Citizen Dialogue”, two European citizens confronted European Commission President José Manuel Barroso about the damage being inflicted on millions in Europe and outside as a result of his (...) -
Schuldkwijtschelding : Brazilië, Algerije en Noorwegen deden het al. Waarom België niet?
29 juli 2013 - door Olivier Bonfond
Een tijd geleden, eind mei 2013, hebben Algerije en Brazilië beslist om de schulden te annuleren die verschillende Afrikaanse landen nog aan hen moesten terugbetalen. De Algerijnse regering deed dit voor een bedrag van 902 miljoen US dollar, een (...)
0 | 25
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Asia
- Balkans
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Bosnia
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Caribbean
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Denmark
- Dominica
- East Timor
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Ethiopia
- Europe
- France
- Gabon
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
CADTM
COMITE POUR L'ABOLITION DES DETTES ILLÉGITIMES
8 rue Jonfosse
4000 - Liège- Belgique
00324 60 97 96 80
info@cadtm.org
Bulletin électronique
À propos du CADTM